会合，会う the ex-baggage handler who 公約するs to build Heathrow's third 滑走路 for half the price: Hotel 大君 Surinder Arora interview

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At the age of 11, Surinder Arora was, in his own words, a '完全にする nutter'. He smoked, he 賭事d and he carried a knife while roaming the streets of Punjab, India, where he grew up with his aunt and uncle, who 可決する・採択するd him when he was a couple of days old.

Two years later, his life was turned upside 負かす／撃墜する when he was moved to live with his 生物学の parents in Southall, a West London town dubbed 'Little Punjab'. Young Surinder quickly fell 支援する into bad habits, but was put straight by his mother, who 脅すd to 立ち退かせる him from their family home after he lied about bunking off from school.

'She gave me a good hiding,' says Arora, who remembers his mother telling him: 'You ever go and do anything wrong and you tell me the truth, I'll 保護する you. If you 嘘（をつく） to me again, next time I'll chuck you out of the house.' He 追加するs: 'She was that 肉親，親類d of person.'

Empire: Surinder Arora has built up a fortune 価値（がある） £350 million after 開始する，打ち上げるing his first hotel in 1999

Now 老年の 60, and a father of three himself, Arora's life has taken a turn for the more respectable. A 居住（者） of Wentworth, Surrey, he 指名するs Sir Cliff Richard and Tony Blair as his の近くに friends.

He has built up an empire of hotel and 所有物／資産／財産 資産s, and is one of the UK's richest Asian men, with an 概算の 逮捕する 価値（がある） of £350 million.?

And, to 固く結び付ける his position within the British 設立, Arora was even a guest at last month's wedding of Princess Eugenie.?

'My daughter Sonia went to the same school as Beatrice, [Eugenie's 年上の sister],' he says somewhat bashfully.?

'So we've known the family for a long time ? Sonia's now 32. It was a 広大な／多数の／重要な honour and it was a fabulous time. It was wonderful.'

Arora, sitting with a beaming smile in the coffee 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 of his Sofitel hotel at Heathrow Airport, is 明確に proud to be a friend of the Queen's son, Prince Andrew, and other 井戸／弁護士席-known 人物／姿／数字s.

But he is bidding to make his own 指名する ? and become part of Britain's history ? by 存在 the man who (finally) builds Heathrow's third 滑走路 and sixth 終点.

He 直面するs an 上りの／困難な struggle. 議会 投票（する）d in favour of Heathrow 拡大 in June ? 50 years after a 労働 政府 first （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d a 報告（する）／憶測 on growing London's airport space ? but there remains major political 対立. 含むing from Boris Johnson, tipped by many as a 未来 Tory Party leader, and Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell's 労働.

'I hate 存在 議論の的になる,' says Arora when asked about Corbyn and McDonnell. 'But I will be on this one: I think they would be a 完全にする 災害 ? an 絶対の 災害. We would go 支援する to the 1970s. We need to go 今後 as a nation and I think it would be a real 悲劇 if Jeremy Corbyn （機の）カム into 力／強力にする.'

Arora also 直面するs the challenge of 説得するing the 政府 that he is better positioned to lead Heathrow's 拡大 than the airport's own 操作者, Heathrow Airports 限られた／立憲的な (HAL). Arora's background is in 所有物／資産／財産. He specialises in developing hotels, offices, car parks and other 資産s in airport areas.

Many, 含むing Heathrow bosses, had assumed HAL would be the only 候補者 for the 職業 of building a 滑走路 and 終点. So it （機の）カム as a shock to onlookers ? and 明らかに 'upset' Heathrow (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs ? when Arora 明かすd his 計画（する）s in the summer of 2017.

One of Arora's big selling points will be price. He （人命などを）奪う，主張するs HAL could rack up costs of £31 billion, while he believes his team can 完全にする the 職業 for £14.4 billion.

Heathrow 主張するs its 計画（する）s have a 類似の cost and that the £31 billion 特記する／引用するd by Arora 含むs other necessary work at their airport. A 広報担当者 解任するd Arora's 計画（する）s, 説 Heathrow 開発 must 'not be 延期するd by 'vested 商業の 利益／興味s with unt ested ideas'. Heathrow 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある John Holland-Kaye has 警告するd Arora's 計画（する）s could turn his airport into a '災害', like JFK in New York where different companies operate different 終点s.

'John ? JHK ? is a lovely guy,' says Arora, who is the largest landowner in and around Heathrow, and is in fact HAL's landlord. 'I never say anything about my competitor ? that they're bad, that they are worse at anything,' he 追加するs, before reeling off a long 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 支配するs about the way Heathrow is run.

His 関心s centre on Civil 航空 当局 支配するs that mean Heathrow and its 投資家s ? 含むing Spanish 会社／堅い Ferrovial, the Qatar 投資 当局 and the 中国 投資 会社／団体 ? 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 航空機によるs in line with the value of the airport's 資産s. Therefore, the more HAL spends on building up Heathrow, the more money is returned to 投資家s.

Arora believes HAL's third 滑走路 and 終点 計画（する）s will be overpriced because the company 現在／一般に has a 'monopoly'. He 追加するs: 'I've been 説 to 上級の (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs: 'Why are you so 脅すd of 競争?' We should 現実に be 説 競争 is a good thing. It keeps everyone on their toes.'

So far, both British 航空路s and Virgin 大西洋 have spoken in support of Arora's 提案 存在 considered, to introduce 競争 and 潜在的に 運動 負かす／撃墜する their costs.

SURINDER ARORA, 60: LEEDS UTD FAN AND FORMER FOOTBALL REF?

Fan: Surinder started watching 物陰／風下d 部隊d in 1972

Family: Married to wife, Sunita, for 36 years. He has three adult children ? Sapna, Sonia and Sanjay ? and five grandchildren.

Holidays: He has a holiday home in Dubai, which is a good 会合 point to see his 親族s in India, and an apartment in Pune, India.

Hobbies: Loves all sport. Plays ゴルフ at Wentworth ? and used to own a 火刑／賭ける in the club ? and tennis. Arora was also a 半分-professional football 審判（をする） and supports 物陰／風下d 部隊d.

'When I （機の）カム from India in 1972, the first game I watched on the telly was 兵器庫 v 物陰／風下d, and my brother was an 兵器庫 支持者 at that time, so I said I'd go against him. Thank God, it's not Man U.'

Music: Whitney Houston and Tina Turner.

Film: All of the James 社債 movies, 特に Casino 王室の.

Food: Chinese and Italian.

Heroes: Allan Leighton ? former 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Asda, chairman of 王室の Mail and 現在／一般に the chairman of Co-operative Group ? b ecause of the 肉親，親類d way he '扱う／治療するs people'.

And 示す Dixon, the 創立者 of serviced offices company Regus.

Arora's team, which 含むs construction group Bechtel as lead partner and architects 会社／堅い Corgan, is working on its 競争相手 planning 使用／適用 now and 計画（する）s to とじ込み／提出する it in 2020. In the 合間, a smaller 論争 is playing out between Arora and Heathrow.

Over the summer, Arora 開始する，打ち上げるd a High 法廷，裁判所 challenge to HAL after it 封鎖するd his 計画（する）s to build a 2,000-capacity car park on Heathrow's grounds. Under planning 支配するs, no more than 42,000 spaces can be built there, and HAL argues that it alone is する権利を与えるd to these slots. If he 勝利，勝つs the 戦う／戦い, which would be a good omen ahead of his 滑走路 war, Arora is 保証（人）ing a 50 per cent 割引 on Heathrow's 現在の car parking 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s.

Since his tearaway teens, Arora has worked hard all of his adult life. 'In my earlier days I would put in 17, 18 hours a day, seven days a week, doing three 職業s at a time,' he says. 床に打ち倒す scrubber, 安全 guard, 半分-professional football 審判（をする） and Heathrow baggage handler are just a few of the 役割s he 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）s.

He 開始する，打ち上げるd his first hotel in 1999, and has since amassed his £350 million fortune. Why then bother fighting Heathrow over car parks and 滑走路s when he could comfortably retire now, at the age of 60?

'This will make a 抱擁する difference for 未来 世代s,' he says. 'If we don't do it ? it doesn't have to be me, I don't care who does it ? then our friends [HAL] will keep on milking it and the 消費者, the 航空機によるs, the 乗客s, the nation will keep on 苦しむing.

'Then it will get to a 行う／開催する／段階 where it's a white elephant ? no one wants to 飛行機で行く in because they can't afford to.'

When Arora is finally ready to hang up his construction cap, he will probably not be around to experience the 利益s ? or 環境の costs, depending on one's political position on airport 拡大 ? of an 大きくするd Heathrow. Instead, he 計画（する）s to return to the Indian streets he once たびたび（訪れる）d as a knife-（権力などを）行使するing 青年.

'India's home,' he says. 'I've got family there, I've kept my roots. My eldest brother and my sister still live there. One day, when I'm a bit old and frail, I'm going to go 支援する.'